When a beautiful idea goes viral ...
Logan's Vitual Olympic Tourch Relay
A simple but wonderful story about a 5 year old boy who had an idea and instead of just dreaming about it - did something about it through his Facebook page and the Just Giving website.
When Logan's teacher asked the class to make an Olympic torch at school, it was a dream assignment.
With all the vigour a five-year-old can muster the young Logan set about cutting paper, card and felt to create the torch and its brightly coloured flames.
He was already running with the tourch in his hand throughout his home town of Chard in Somerset.
This was the beginning of an extraordinary "virtual relay" as Logan's torch was auctioned on eBay and sent from buyer to buyer across the country.
By the evening of 7th July, nearly four weeks later, the little boy had raised more than £12,000 for the Let's Hear It For Deaf Children campaign being run by Hearing Dogs for Deaf People.
The first auction fetched £21 but, instead of keeping the torch for himself, bidder Nik Jason, from Gloucestershire, asked Logan to list the item for sale once more. It was then that Logan's grandfather, Paul Blackburn, suggested the virtual relay.
The next bidder, Clare Pomeroy, of Shifnal, Shropshire, paid £67. After five days, the torch was relisted and was sent to Karen Allard, of Gillingham, Dorset, who bid £56.
The auction finished on 7th July when it sold for £10,900 to a mystery bidder. Visitors to Logan's Facebook page have donated £1,600.
This wonderful thought went viral across the internet via logoan's facebook page recieved just under 4000 likes within two days and was then picked up by the BBC Breakfast News Team | Find out more
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